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5 January 1945 | The last session of the Gestapo summary court from Kattowitz was held in Block 11 in Auschwitz I. Over 100 Poles were sentenced to death. Germans shot them in crematorium V in Birkenau the next day Jan Strycharski from Myślachowice was one of them. 1/4
Jan Strycharski, who was sentenced to death on 5 January 1945, left a message inside Block 11 that survived till this day: "Strycharski Jan, 17 June 1905, Trzebinia, Myślachowice, Czyżówka no. 11. Let my family know. 5 January 1945." 2/4
Home Army courier Antoni Szlachcic, Władysław Jasiówka and Kazimierz Matjasiński from Sosnowiec, Stanisław Kobyłka from Rusiec, Józef Łuczak from Wieluń, Adam Tondos from Jęzor, Zbigniew Kunz from Orłowa were among sentenced to death on 5 January 1945. 3/4
Gestapo summary court from Kattowitz that carried its sessions in Auschwitz sentenced to death around 3,000 Poles. Most of them were shot. The executions were held at the yard of Block 11 and from March 1944 in Birkenau, mainly in crematorium V 4/4
You can read stories of people who left their traces in Block 11 in our exhibition at @googlearts : google.com/culturalinstit…

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4 January 1920 | Polish woman Anna Stefańska was born in Jasło.

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1 January 1945 | 200 Poles sentenced to death by a Gestapo summary court (100 men & 100 women) were shot in crematorium V at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. They were transported from Block 11 in Auschwitz I in two groups - men and women separately. 1/2
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